1st Edition
Dynamics of Ethnic Identity Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia
By Jae-Hyup Lee
Copyright 1998
224 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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This comparative study of the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American communities in Philadelphia shows that each Asian American community maintains its own internal cultural boundaries, which are used to cultivate differences that become institutionalized over time. Socially constructed boundaries, such as ethnicity, gender, class and generation, intersect within and among ethnic groups. Based... Read more
1: Introduction; I: Three Asian American Communities; 2: Ethnicity: Basic Constructions; 3: The Process of Research; 4: Historical Aspects of Asian Americans; 5: The New Asian American Communities; II: The Dynamics of Identity; 6: Capturing Ethnicity; 7: Boundary Maintenance and Reproducing Culture; 8: Ideology and Ethnicity; III: Reassessing Asian American Identity; 9: Conclusion
Biography
Jae-Hyup Lee
